Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
The Center for Fiction: 2025 First Novel Prize
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Examined Lives

From Socrates to Nietzsche

by James Miller

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100 Notable Books of 2011: New York Times Nonfiction

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2021 Robert Koehler · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
2025 First Novel Prize The Center for Fiction
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
2026 Award The Booker Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
2026 First Novel Prize The Center for Fiction
20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Best Fiction of 2026 Goldsmiths Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times
Best Films of 2017 Michael Nordine · Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll

Trending Works

A Real Animal Emeline Atwood
Kibogo Scholastique Mukasonga
The Great Glass Sea Josh Weil
Ruins, Child Giada Scodellaro
What Am I, A Deer? Polly Barton
Saint Monkey Jacinda Townsend
Kitten Stacey Yu
Blow Yourself Up Ankur Thakkar
The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Fall Back Down When I Die Joe Wilkins
The Fantasies of Future Things Doug Jones
The Next Time You See Me Holly Goddard Jones
The History of Living Forever Jake Wolff
The Rouse China Miéville

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